Microsoft
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Notes from the Super Heavyweight Bout
A few observations on the super heavyweight, no-holds-barred, ultimate cage match between Google and Microsoft. Some of these have been rattling around in my head for a while so please excuse my inability to embrace the real-time “what are you thinking (or eating) this instant” Twitter aesthetic. Google’s Soft Landing Google’s Q4 and Q1 performance…
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Fixations
Microsoft (market cap $182 billion) is fixated on Google. Google (market cap $122 billion) is fixated on Facebook. Facebook (market cap ~$3 billon) is fixated on Twitter. Who or what is Twitter fixated on? Revenue? Uptime? Oprah? Rolling up the $300 billion in market cap chasing them?
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Say It Ain’t So
Flight Simulator is the biggest product casualty of the Microsoft layoffs? The layoffs are a sad day for all the people affected and a disappointing milestone for the company, but Flight Sim is an industry institution dating back three decades. It is painful to see as I was the Flight Simulator product manager early in…